The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-12-30
TRAIN ROBBERS
Seven Mem Attempt to Rob .
Train on the Missouri Pa
cifc,
But Are Defeated by the Bravery Of
the Messenger-The N0-Nan's.
Land Horror.
More Dead Fodies Discovered-Ssrieus
Shooting Affair in Ksatueky -Fntri-
eide in St. Louis.

O1O0 ~ OW 41OOA8s
DENxIsoN. Tex, Dec. :6-Yesterday
when train No 2O7 on the Missouri Pacific,
south bound. pulled out of Atoka, !. T.. two
men boarded the engine, covered Engineer
Raxland and his fireman with their gups
and ordered thcm to go on and stop at
Doggy Bridge, q small creek north OF
Stringtown. When that point was reached
the train was stopped and the engineer and
fireman put under yuard Here five others
joined the gang. Three went to the express
car, the door being open, the messenger
suppos,ng the train had reached q station.
Pacific Express Messenger John Grimshaw
went to the door just Us the men appeared.
Seeing their Winches,ers he took in the
situation and pulled shut the heavy door
in their faces before resistance could
be offered. He then put out tho lights an
he and baggageman Sparrow, who was in
the Cur At the time, fortified themselves
between the express freight. Armed with
their pistols they lay down to await the re-
cults. The roboers, failing to get within
the cars, engineer Ragiand was brought
forward to effect an entrance with chisel
and hammer, but was unable to get in.
This exasperated the robbers. whe cursed
the messenger and ordered him to open tho
car or they would set 1t on fire. They fired
into the car score of bullets. While this
was going on, Brakeman James Harvest
got OF the train and was shot at by one OF
the robbers, but was not hit. The robbers
fired three shots into the mail Car, In which
were w. w. Glover. clerk in charge, help
er 3. II. Armstrong, and another assistant.
After firing thirty or forty shots into the
express car and failing to secure an
entrance, they 6red q voiiey into the Pull
man sleeper and then gave up the job and
allowed the train to proceed, having de-
tanned it thirty minutes. Indian Territory
officers are after the robbers, vino had
horses hitched in the timber near by.
THE KELLY PIESDs.
WICHITA, Kan, Dec. 26.-S. T. Gregg.
representing IA st. Louis house, arrived III
the city yesterday from No Mans Land,
confirming the reports Of the bloody deeds
Of the Kelly family, and adding further
particulars to the story. He says he can
remember stopping at the Kelly house to
get meals. 1t was one story, but wi q
barn shot distance away. His former
trip there, about the 10Th OF November, he
missed the family aud did not know what
had become OF them. In the last trip he
was told ut Oak City the particulars
Of the finl soon after IN investi.
cation had been made. Beneath the
house was found cellar IN which
was the decOmpOsei remains Of MAJ
This body lay almost beneath trap which
has bs en- built on the floor. In one corner
Of the cellar was found two other bodies
both so far decomp0sed as to be unreccg
Unable "But rs was informed, and see
Mr.. Randolph, Il Chicago, has omitted tO
say" he continued, there were Il ur bod.
les buried beneath the table, one If which
was u woman. A COW by going by the
name of '.Texy," WHO said he was with the
second investigating purity, says that the
first bodies found lei 10 so much talk that
the whole premises for rods around the
house YVES searcLeL. Lying alongside OF
the barn, buried ut n DEF tn # not over Tire
feet was unearthed first the remains Ut a
man. who appeared to be be ter DIRE Ised than
any of the others. and who. it was believed.
was the body of the missiong J. I. Taylor.
About two feet away was u second body
not at all recognizable. At the corner OF
the barn were buried the bodies Of the
third man and woman. The bodies We're
taken from their resting places and gwen
burial. Nothing has been head of Kelly
Since they removed. There IS feeling.
however, that with their ill-gotten gains
they have removed to Cd Mexico. lu
speaking o: the personal al pc rance II the
family, Gregg says there " as nothing par
'''ui"ii! u'Sasioe""io "o"u' 'uou,. icy
were very commonplace Ieople, in fact.
i"e i"hi''y i"c'u'e ISSUES 'nc PARENTS
son and daughter. Neither OF them
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natl southern railroad, reading:
ERLANGEie n.y. Dec. s.-Send omcers'
ni ss riot JEFF CaiLDEEs.
1ue ene,H ".o poSso "eu' l'on Wv.
lngtoh anu l'uhd That some young men VI
Boone County, where prohioition prevails,
who had made Erianger their base ei
Ming thsre S,,nr,.v p,yh,. and dr;nL.
inc n. Jobn Conunr,s sa,oon disiikoa |
A hart t.at,s tho h,r,,.en.r ,,rd L.v,n.
gwen him no,ice n onit d.. dsd sa,nr,ia1 |
n;oht ~ dr,y., nm ,,v,v Tnoy 90, nv, :,
t;ght in the saloon late a. nigh. md Cates
n1, tI,.m ont TN ,re - ar. So,,or in III
yang and Gates hare the door tn.
n.rtv retu,n ned and WAC refused udm;.s,on
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stone. and tirei nis,ols tnrouoh the ,,oore
ond w;ndo,ys C.,,as and M. comn.nio,.
retnrned the fro The ossailon,. rat;rod
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